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  2. Types of Mental Health Professionals

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    Mental health counselor: Mental health counselor is a broad term for a licensed professional who provides mental health counseling services, often focusing on specific issues or populations. A ...

  3. Health care provider - Wikipedia

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    Health care provider. A health care provider is an individual health professional or a health facility organization licensed to provide health care diagnosis and treatment services including medication, surgery and medical devices. Health care providers often receive payments for their services rendered from health insurance providers.

  4. Counselor vs. Therapist: How to Choose & More - Healthline

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    Like counselors, therapists focus on treatments that can benefit your overall mental health and well-being. Therapy sessions can happen: one-on-one (individual therapy) with your partner or family ...

  5. What Is a Mental Health Counselor?

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    Mental health counselors are licensed professionals who treat the cognitive, behavioral, and emotional aspects of mental health and substance use conditions. They work with individuals, families ...

  6. Licensed professional counselor - Wikipedia

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    Licensed professional counselors (LPCs) are doctoral and master's-level mental health service providers, trained to work with individuals, families, and groups in treating mental, behavioral, and emotional problems and disorders. LPCs make up a large percentage of the workforce employed in community mental health centers, agencies, universities ...

  7. Mental health professional - Wikipedia

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    Mental health professional. A mental health professional is a health care practitioner or social and human services provider who offers services for the purpose of improving an individual's mental health or to treat mental disorders. This broad category was developed as a name for community personnel who worked in the new community mental ...

  8. Psychiatry, Psychology, Counseling, and Therapy: What to Expect

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    Psychiatrist. A psychiatrist is a medical doctor (M.D. or D.O.) who specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating mental illness. A psychiatrist's training starts with four years of medical ...

  9. Psychotherapy for Mental Illnesses: Benefits, Types, Techniques

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    Psychotherapy, a type of mental health therapy, involves counseling, talking or venting. It can be combined with medications prescribed by a licensed mental health care professional.